Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-12-22
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
JESS RApLEY, Editor.

ACCOUNT OF SICKNESS.
The pupils have had splendid times
tobogganing on the hill in front of the
school house.
Elders Sal John and Crandan visited
the school Thursday and gave us some
good advice.
New scholar Thursday, Geo. Allen.
Miss Brown has two new pupils.
Dave WEIGH and Bert Jardine.
There was large attendance at the
reading circle Friday evening. Bacon's
essays were the subjects for discussion.
Carrie Macarthur visited the school
Friday.
Rhetorical exercises will be held on
Friday afternoon in the two higher
rooms and on Thursday afternoon in
the two lower rooms. The high school
and the first intermediate departments
will hold their exercises in Miss
Browns room and the lower grades will
meet in Miss Pinkhams room. The
exercises will begin at | :45 o'clock sharp.
All interested in the school are invited
to attend.
Our school vacation is from Friday
Dec. 23, until Tuesday Jan. 3.
Answers to questions of last week.
Courtship is the largest ship in the
world.
Leopold III is King of Belgium.
Boadicea was an English sovereign at
the time of the Roman Conquest.
Manitou is the smallest county in
Michigan.
Judge of Probate is the county officer
elected for more than two years.
$1,000 men was the number of Michi-
gan soldiers killed in the Civil War.
Harrisburg was named in honor Of
John Harris, one of the early settlers
of Pennsylvania.
Testing of China is the richest man in
the world. lie is worth one billion
dollars.
Questions to be answered next week.
Which teeth come last?
Who was the first Governor of Michi-
gan?
Who many and who were the presi-
dents that died while occupying the
chair?
When and what was the first message
sent across the Atlantic ocean?
What was the name of the first
steamer that crossed the Atlantic
ocean?
When and by whom were the first
| fire arms patented?
When did our National debt reach its
maximum? How much was it?
Who was the war governor of Michi-
gan?
Reproduction Story from the 4tl grade.
ROBERTS VOYAGE.
Robert Green had an uncle who was
a sea captain. Robert called him
Uncle Mark" One summer Uncle
Mark told Robert that he would take
him and his cousin George on a voyage.
The boys were delighted, and soon
gained the consent of their parents
and were ready to go.
They were to sail from New York,
and Roberts father went with them
and saw them safe on board the ship.
They talked great deal about the
voyage. George hoped they would go
to Africa. He knew that the ivory on
the handle of his knife was made from
the tusk of an elephant, and he had
heard that there were great many
elephants in Africa. He had read of
the Ostrich, bird six or seven feet tall
and strong enough to carry man on
his back, and he wanted to see it and
get some feathers for his sisters hat.
Robert thought he would like to go
to Africa too. He had been told of
the sponges gathered from the rocks in
the sea north of Africa. and he had
read of the cork-trees and how the
bark is taken from them once in eight
or ten years. And he wanted to get a
beautiful little gazelle and bring it
home for a pet
But Uncle Mark told them they
would go to Brazil, country in South
America. He told them of the
oranges and lemons, and rare birds and
plants, that are found in Brazil, and
the boys thought they would rather go
there than to Africa. Robert soon
found on a map the city of Rio Janeiro
where they would land and get a cargo
of coffee to bring back to New York.
EMERSON COOPER.
INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMEN T.
ALEX FRANCIS, Editor.
If you see word worth saving,
Floating by in our daily press,
Save 1t, do not let the good seed perish,
Save its fruit the world shall bless,
For though love and truth are tempest tost,
In Gods wide realm they are never lost